A jury found Darrell Brooks guilty of all six counts of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the Waukesha, Wis. parade massacre on Wednesday.
Last November, Brooks plowed his car into a crowd during a Christmas parade in Waukesha, killing six people and injuring dozens of others.
At the time of the massacre, Brooks faced multiple pending cases in Milwaukee County involving second-degree reckless endangerment and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Brooks was convicted on all 76 counts leveled against him, including first-degree recklessly endangering safety, hit-and-run, bail-jumping, and battery. Sentencing in the case will occur at a later date, the court announced.
Just over a week before he committed plowed into the Christmas parade crowd, Brooks secured a release from custody on $1,000 cash bond after being indicted on several charges. After the Waukesha tragedy, Democratic Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm said that his office would conduct a review of the “inappropriately low” bail recommendation.
Brooks had an extensive criminal history before he rammed the SUV into innocent bystanders. He had an active warrant for his arrest in Nevada, where he was a registered sex offender. In 2006, Brooks was convicted of statutory sexual seduction in 2006, after he had sex with a 15-year-old girl and impregnated her, according to local police.
Wisconsin lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes, who is currently running for the U.S. Senate, still supports ending cash bail despite the failure of bail reform in the case of the mass murder perpetrated by Brooks. Barnes’s campaign said in February that he still backs legislation he proposed in 2016 while serving in the state assembly that would have ended “monetary bail as a condition of release” for criminal defendants and barred judges from detaining defendants based on the “nature, number and gravity” of the charges.